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Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Italiano
Description
Tommi (11) and his slightly older sister Viola live in the city with their father. They cope with being a single parent family until their mother shows up, having disappeared without trace - not for the first time, we soon learn. These are the four protagonists in a bittersweet portrait of their ongoing struggle with love, friendship, puberty and life in general.
Home use only.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
Giovanna is a young working-class wife and mother, who has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart she never expected; a freedom that will lead her to the arm of a neighbor she secretly adores, and to fulfillment her husband and family cannot provide.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged man living with his elderly mother finds the best way to pay for their debts is to take care of the building manager's mother during the biggest festival of the year. Soon he finds himself with not two but four mothers to keep fed and happy.
8) Tickets
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
An elderly businessman finds solace and a new insight into life when he meets a younger woman, who then arranges his train ticket after his flight is canceled. A young man is torn between an older woman who controls him and a younger one that attracts him. And three Scottish youths on their way to the football match of their dreams are forced to open their eyes and see the bigger picture. In each case, the train journey changes the course of the all...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Italiano
Description
Dramatic retelling of the story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old Sicilian girl whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) who breaks the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino. Her days are numbered from that moment on. She only has nine months to live.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Italiano
Description
Gianni is reunited with Paolo, the 15-year-old son he has never seen, a son he abandoned at birth. The reunion is not Gianni's idea, but that of Paolo's doctor who hopes the connection will benefit the troubled boy. Gianni experiences a Pandora's box in Paolo, full of shocks and wonders, but the key to one's house are oftern found in the keys to one's heart.
Publisher
Empire Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Caterina moves with her family from the small town of Montalto di Castro to Rome. The sensitive and intelligent young girl enrolls in the eighth grade in one of the most prestigious schools in the capital, where she finds her class totally divided between the snobbish, radical chic and reactionary, spoiled brats. Worse, her own father, a frustrated professor, begins to manipulate her as he sees in the parents of her new school acquaintances the possibility...
12) Angela
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
For Angela, the world of organized crime provides an exciting and sexy alternative to the life she's known. Dreaming of glamorous presents and nearly unimaginable power, Angela marries Saro, placing her in the center of a life of stolen goods, and questionable moral codes. Fascinated by risk, Angela has become the front woman in a shoe shop which is used as cover for her husband's growing drug business.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
While playing outside one day in a wheat field, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town bad boy Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the tale to his closest friend. When Michele's parents learn of his discovery, they warn him to forget whatever he saw.
15) Cinema paradiso
Series
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life.
16) Reality
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
A darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show Big Brother leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano's own reality begins to spiral out of control.
17) Respiro
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Grazia is a carefree mother of three, who soon becomes the focus of her neighbors' gossip. While her fellow Lampedusians work and live hard - oblivious to their native paradise - Grazia alone is courageous enough to blissfully embrace life's treasures. Her wild, sensual and free-spirited behavior reflects the unrivaled beauty of her heavenly seaside village. She is not understood or accepted by the social conventions of the town, nor its strict tribal...
18) The great beauty
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
When one of the Magi sees a comet streak across the sky, he interprets the heavenly body as a divine message. He embarks on a journey in the direction of the "star", accompanied by a caravan of assistants, soldiers, merchants, and villagers. After two other Magi join the caravan, the journey unfolds as a test of faith and strength for its participants.
20) Senso
Series
Criterion collection ; 556
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a nineteenth century Italian countess who, amid the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant.